Opinion: The Obamaian Universe

Columnist Dan Henninger on President Obama's conception of the economy and the place of government and the private sector.

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... I ... deconstructing what the Pope were also in deconstructing a work ... of our own President Barack Obama was banned in public life national life now ... for many many years only keep Wonderland Columnist Dan Henninger here on the set ... to discuss his column ... on prison Obama ... D and youth in writing a series now ... on on the president what makes him tick Publicis field ... Obama mine in the economy the Bottom Line universe minute alternative humans alternate universe ... he will first of all what is the Obama mine universe ... well the Obama mine universe is like the one that predated Copernicus one of the everybody thought that all the planets revolved around the earth ... we now know that that's false ... but some early I think ... Barack Obama seems to think that everything in the private sector large corporations mom and pop stores ... everything out there through balls around ... the public spending ... and is raw Washington's sending out these like forces into the country to allow it to survive ... he literally believes that public spending has this kind of life forces energy force for the United States ... and ... I'm not trying to talk really hearing kind of weird scientific ... his science fiction terms ... I've been writing these columns because I believe we have to start taking Barack Obama at his word ... on the one hand yes he's quite a political animal the knees trying to marginalize the Republicans but it is not simply politics ... this president I think is more different than any in the living memory I think even Franklin Roosevelt ... understood the legitimacy and and purpose of the private sector ... Barack Obama regards the private sector as abstractions simply something out there that processes tax revenue into that ... of Washington so that this this vending machine ... this magic force can raise up the country ... he does not want to cut spending you know the the the the calm not today it's on WS J dot com I encourage everybody ... to read it ... talks about this concept of the economy that the previous columns of also talked about his method of implementing this ... this vision of the economy I especially love Obama in the thundered home ... um what do we need to understand about ... how he thinks about engaging in politics ... well one of the points is being made a lot in the sequester plague is that of Brock Obama has spent Berkeley mill time engaging in Congress that humans with him well with with with the elected representatives of people or in the Congress the estate instead he runs around the country making speeches all the time ... and I think ... Obama again is a kind of populist president of a tight that the United States is not seen in a long time ... his idea politics is to go out and ... gather all this great populist force of public opinion ... and ride it against his opposition in this case the Republicans ... rather than engage them at all in any kind of political process ... honestly area they has more in common with what we often seen in South American politics than in North American politics ... this kind of called the personnel of these very populist force that kind of thing ... that we're quite ears the political class ... to recognize that and do what his business and some that I can tell what motivated you to rate this series of conflicts ... well I think it's just me mainly because we have to strike to ... come to grips with and understand the kind of presidency that we're doing we're only here in the second or third month of the second term ... and I am willing to take Obama at his word that is going to be a different kind of presidency in if the United States is going to get through this second term ... on his term shall I say then we have to understand why he engages in politics the way he does why he thinks he's different than I think if we ... acknowledge that ... the end of ... the political class middle of the rest of the country in business or try to adjust ... to his policies will have a ... hopefully a better time at the head of doing that first you have to acknowledge that you have a problem then you